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Augustine’s Conflicted Tears: Grief & Hope in Confessions and Enchiridion

Augustine's Confessions and Enchiridion can help us articulate a Christian understanding of grief and hope.

That One Day

I believe each of us, no matter what age, maintains a memory, an awareness, or some kind of knowledge, of 9/11.

The Moffats

Losing a loved one creates a present absence; we often search for that person in the "outside room." It is part of the nature of grief and loss.

Rosemary — Half My Soul

As we entered the summer, I was a happily married man in my late 70s, looking forward to journeying deeper into old age with...

Saying Goodbye to Nana

I am an Episcopalian, and Episcopalians often give up something for Lent or take something on as a daily discipline. This might include abstaining from...

The Audacious Hope of Advent

Content warning: Miscarriage. The defining feature of my life right now is that I am pregnant. Almost every casual conversation starts with either a “Congratulations!”...

Remembering Life’s Journey

I have not seen the movie Barbie, and most likely never will. But I have two daughters who, when they were of an age that...

Grief and Loss

By John Bauerschmidt In 1978, the poet Denise Levertov released Life in the Forest, a collection that contained a handful of poems written around the...

God’s Hiddenness and a Miscarriage

Two days after Easter, my wife and I found out that our expected child was dead. She should have been twelve weeks along in...

We Will Remember Them

By Rosemary Kew In the small English town of Oundle, where my mother spent 35 of her last years, daffodils were planted in 1919 in...

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